Preface

Jiøí Moskala

Abbreviations

Introduction

Roy E. Gane

Part One: History of Scholarship and Alternative Approaches

1 A Critical Intellectual History of the Historical-Critical Paradigm in Biblical Studies

Joshua Berman

2 The Exodus, Debt Slavery, and the Composition of the Pentateuch

Richard E. Averbeck

3 Egyptian Language Practice—a Model for Hebrew Poetic Use?

L. S. Baker, Jr. and A. Rahel Wells

4 Second Millennium BC Cuneiform from the Southern Levant and the Literature of the Pentateuch

Richard S. Hess

5 The Hittite Treaty Prologue Tradition and the Literary Structure of the Book of Deuteronomy

Jiøí Moskala and Felipe A. Masotti

6 Embodied Covenantal Instruction and Legal Reuse in Torah

Kenneth Bergland

7 The Liturgical Function of Dates in the Pentateuch

Michael LeFebvre

Part Two: Exegetical Studies

8. In the Tradition of Moses: The Conceptual and Stylistic Imprint of Deuteronomy on the Patriarchal Narratives

Daniel I. Block

9 Was Moses the Last Prophet? An Analysis of a Neo-Documentarian Interpretation of Document E

Duane A. Garrett

10 Revisiting the Literary Structure(s) of Exodus

Richard Davidson, Tiago Arrais, and Christian Vogel

11 Was Leviticus Composed by Aaronide Priests to Justify Their Cultic Monopoly?

Roy E. Gane

12 The Reception of Priestly Laws in Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy's Target Audience

Benjamin Kilchör

13 The Implications of Some Current Ezekiel Research for Theories of the Composition of the Pentateuch

John S. Bergsma

Bibliography

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